Drawing shapes on BitmapData, or geting its graphics context

Question

Hello, what would be your recommendation for drawing shapes (rects, circles...) onto BitmapData, and how to effectively switch between colors.

Is there any way to get graphics context from BitmapData so I could easily paint shapes using graphics.draw...()?

Answer 1

Why do you want to use a BitmapData? Not sure what you're after, but after reading a couple of your questions it seems you're a kind of fighting against how flash works. I think you'll make things much easier for yourself if you use what's available already. BitmapData objects are meant mainly to manipulate pixels and don't expose methods for drawing shapes. A Graphics object (available through Sprite, Shape, etc) on the other hand, allows you to draw vector shapes easily.

So, the best approach for this, I guess, would be using the drawing API to do what you want and then, if needed, convert the graphic to a BitmapData.